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Download Program Notes ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEASON 2019 MASTER SERIES 4 Winter Fire June Thu 27, 11.30am Fri 28, 8pm Sat 29, 6.30pm PRESENTING PARTNER Adelaide Town Hall 2 MASTER SERIES 4 Winter Fire June Pinchas Zukerman Conductor/Violin Thu 27, 11.30am Amanda Forsyth Cello Fri 28, 8pm Benjamin Northey Conductor Sat 29, 6.30pm Adelaide Town Hall Elgar Chanson de matin, Op.15 No.2 Elgar Chanson de nuit, Op.15 No.1 Avner Dorman Double Concerto World Premiere I II — III Pinchas Zukerman Violin Amanda Forsyth Cello Benjamin Northey Conductor Interval Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 in E minor, Op.64 Andante – Allegro con anima Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza Valse (Allegro moderato) Andante maestoso – Allegro vivace Duration Live Broadcast This concert runs for approximately 1 hour This concert will be broadcast live on and 45 minutes, including 20 minute interval. ABC Classic. The ASO acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, learn and work. We pay our respects to the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders, past, present and future. 3 Vincent Ciccarello Managing Director Welcome to our concert. In recent years, we have been honoured to be a co-commissioning partner of The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra has a new music with various institutions long and proud history of commissioning from around the world. There is a very and presenting new music. We believe practical dimension to this process, that it’s not only incumbent on us but also too, as doing so not only makes the vital to do so, and for a host of reasons. commissioning financially viable but it Humans have always sought to express guarantees that a new piece will be given themselves musically and composers will multiple performances as it is ushered continue to do what they have always into the world. been driven to do – to craft the building This week, you will be witnessing blocks of sound into an expression of the World Premiere of a new double their ideas, emotions and creative vision. concerto by the acclaimed Israeli-born But just as a symphony by Beethoven composer, Avner Dorman, for our Artist in or an orchestral tone poem by Richard Association, Pinchas Zukerman and cellist Strauss is simply ink on paper sitting on Amanda Forsyth. a library shelf until it is performed by The concerto has been jointly living and breathing musicians, these commissioned by the ASO with one new musical creations also need a of the world’s greatest orchestras, the vehicle through which they can be Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the brought to life. National Arts Centre, Ottawa, with And as the different interpretation of which Mr Zukerman has had a long and every Beethoven symphony proves, music distinguished association. itself is a living and breathing thing. The work is not only a celebration of Mr Music is – to quote a hackneyed phrase Zukerman’s 70th birthday but a product – not only a universal language but of the international community of music a global phenomenon. The world of and musicians of which the ASO is a musicians and composers really is a proud member. global village. I hope you enjoy the concert. The ASO will continue to proudly champion the music of Australian composers – as our three-year partnership with Cathy Milliken as Composer in Association attests. But we also want to celebrate our many, varied international artistic relationships and the ASO’s place in the world. 4 Benjamin Northey Conductor Australian conductor Benjamin Northey is he studied with Leif Segerstam and the Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Atso Almila until 2005. He completed Symphony Orchestra and the Associate his studies at the Stockholm Royal Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony College of Music with Jorma Panula in Orchestra. He has previously held the 2006. In 2009/10, he was chosen as posts of Resident Guest Conductor of the one of three conductors worldwide to Australia Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra participate in the Allianz International (2002-2006) and Principal Conductor Conductor’s Academy with the LPO and of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra the Philharmonia Orchestra. (2007-2010). With a progressive and diverse approach Northey also appears regularly as a to repertoire, he has collaborated with a guest conductor with all major Australian broad range of artists including Maxim symphony orchestras, Opera Australia Vengerov, Julian Rachlin, Karen Gomyo, (Turandot, L’elisir d’amore, Don Giovanni, Alban Gerhardt, Johannes Moser, Piers Così fan tutte, Carmen), New Zealand Lane, Amy Dickson, Slava Grigoryan & Opera (Sweeney Todd) and State Opera Marc-André Hamelin as well as popular South Australia (La sonnambula, L’elisir artists Tim Minchin, KD Lang, Kate Miller- d’amore, Les contes d’Hoffmann). His Heidke, Barry Humphries, Kurt Elling, international appearances include James Morrison and Tori Amos. concerts with the London Philharmonic Northey is highly active in the Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic performance of Australian orchestral Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra music having premiered numerous Salzburg, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, major new works by Brett Dean, the National Symphony Orchestra of Peter Sculthorpe, Elena Kats-Chernin, Colombia, the Malaysian Philharmonic, Matthew Hindson and many others. the New Zealand Symphony, Auckland An Honorary Fellow at the Melbourne Philharmonia and Christchurch Conservatorium of Music, his awards Symphony Orchestras. include the prestigious 2010 Melbourne Northey studied conducting with John Prize Outstanding Musician’s Award Hopkins at the University of Melbourne and the 2002 Brian Stacey Memorial Conservatorium of Music. In 2001, he Scholarship as well as multiple awards was awarded first prize in the Symphony and nominations for his numerous Australia Young Conductor of the Year recordings with ABC Classics. Competition under the direction of Jorma Panula. In 2002, he was accepted as the highest placed applicant to Finland’s prestigious Sibelius Academy where 5 Pinchas Zukerman Conductor/Violin With a celebrated career encompassing “You could have blindfolded an five decades, Pinchas Zukerman reigns experienced listener, put him in a as one of today’s most sought after and different room where he could scarcely versatile musicians - violin and viola hear the sounds, and he’d still recognize soloist, conductor, and chamber musician. that liquid, Zukerman tone. There is He is renowned as a virtuoso, admired no other like it....His sound is utterly for the expressive lyricism of his playing, imimitable - as it has been for more singular beauty of tone, and impeccable than 30 years - from its intense sweetness musicianship, which can be heard on high to its throaty richness at the throughout his discography of over depths of the instrument....And the 100 albums. molten gold that streams from the instrument is completely breathtaking. The 2018-2019 season marks Mr. Fabulous playing.” Pinchas Zukerman’s tenth season as Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal - The Herald (Glasgow) Philharmonic Orchestra and his fourth as the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s Artist-in-Association and includes over 100 concerts worldwide. Highlights of the season include two European tours with the Royal Philharmonic and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras, and concerto appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Pittsburgh, Colorado, New World Symphonies and Gulbenkian Orchestra. Serving as both soloist and conductor, Mr. Zukerman leads the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Toronto and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras. In chamber music, he travels with the Zukerman Trio and joins the Jerusalem Quartet as guest artist on tour in Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Vancouver, Berkeley, CA and Ann Arbor, MI. 6 Amanda Forsyth Cello Principal cello of Canada’s National Arts Brahms’ Double Concerto with Pinchas Centre Orchestra from 1999 to 2015, Zukerman and the National Arts Centre Amanda Forsyth has established an Orchestra, Ottawa. In 2002 she was the international reputation as soloist and subject of the Bravo! Canada television chamber musician. documentary Amanda Rising: The Amanda Forsyth Story. Amanda Forsyth She has toured with the Royal moved to Canada from South Africa as a Philharmonic Orchestra and appeared child. She became a protégé of William with such orchestras as the Orchestre Pleeth in London, and later studied with Radio de France, Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Harvey Shapiro at the Juilliard School. Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, She performs on a rare 1699 Italian cello Maggio Musicale Orchestra, Dallas by Carlo Giuseppe Testore. Symphony, Moscow Virtuosi and Mariinsky Theater Orchestra. In 2014 Ms. Forsyth was invited for her first homecoming tour of South Africa performing Malcolm Forsyth’s Elektra Rising among other repertoire. Recent concerts have included playing Victor Herbert’s Cello Concerto with the Israel Philharmonic conducted by Pinchas Zukerman, a cello ensemble concert with Mischa Maisky and others at the Miyazaki Festival, and the Brahms Double Concerto in Seoul with Pinchas Zukerman, the KBS Symphony Orchestra and Yoel Levi. A founding member of the Zukerman Chamber Players, Amanda Forsyth has visited much of Europe and the Middle East. As cellist of the Zukerman Trio, she has performed throughout Europe, Asia, and the US including summer festivals in Edinburgh, Verbier, BBC Proms and Ravinia. Recordings include Schubert’s Trout Quintet with the Zukerman Chamber Players and Yefim Bronfman, and ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Principal
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